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ah, listen carefully. don't know how to miss today. ah, feel the magic discover the world around you. subscribe to d w documentary on youtube. blue is 1st foreign trip in $1000.00 days. she jean ping travels to central asia to talk trade and to potentially meet with russian president vladimir putin. will take

a look at why he's traveling ahead, traveling abroad now. also on our show, german farmers find new ways of squeezing every last drop of a drop of water from their surroundings without further stressing ground supplies. and the end of an error in the u. k is driving new demand for memorabilia related to the queen loan. welcome to the show. i'm seen beardsley in berlin. we begin in strasbourg, france, where you commission president or sl of underline, has announced a proposal to lower the blocks dependents on china for critical raw materials such as lithium, in the front line, calling for new efforts to identify projects and build reserves that could secure supplies of rare earths in particular, and in such minerals are considered critical for batteries and renewable in energy infrastructure. but production and processing around the growth globe are largely centered in china. benchmark of underlines remarks are part of a larger address focused on measures to relieve high energy prices and ease supply

bottlenecks. here's where she said. china controls the grill billing, global processing industry. almost 90 percent 90 percent of rare earth and 60 percent of lithium are processed in china. so we will identify strategic projects all along the supply chain, from extracting to we fine from processing to we cycling. and we will build up strategic reserves where supply is at risk. this is why today i am announcing a european critical raw materials act. you commission president ursula vander line. they're speaking in strasbourg, france. europe may be questioning aspects of its trade with china, but b ging also has its own economic concerns of late from rising debt loads to tenacious unemployment. that's the backdrop as premier she gene ping heads abroad

this week. for the 1st time since the pandemic is traveling to cause extent, and it was back as dan friendly territory where he can tell trade relations and where he's expected to meet russian president vladimir putin. of for more in this, i'm joined by fabi, an credit for in beijing fabi. and i want to begin with the e. u. another signal that brussels wants to move some of its dependents from china away or move, move become less dependent on china in terms of these raw materials. how is beijing likely to interpret these repeated statements of trying to shift dependence from aging? well, that's a very sensitive issue and i'm probably a, it will not, or, i mean, of course china will not, not like this message. and they will see this as some kind of confrontation or polarization. and on the same time they are also em shifting their own and strategy

goes towards autonomy and also self reliance. so you can say that basically it's happening on both sides. we're talking about, she's 1st trip in her 1st trip abroad. him or over $1000.00 days, it comes as the economy is struggling and, and there's a significant peoples congress approaching. how important is this true procedure pin? yeah, i mean, he was basically the last and were state leader among all the big world economies that has not left his or the broadest of his home country. and there was an increasing pressure for china to show more presence on the international state. and also to engage more diplomatically, and that's exactly what she does, pink string now. and, and it's a crucial timing. as you mentioned. and in one month there will be a historic party congress during which seizing ping is expected to proclaim as a 3rd term in office. that's a very controversial matter. and, and he even more so, since he's are facing a lot of economic headwinds here. i mean, related to the 0 corporate strategy, but also

a real estate crisis and hi am youth unemployment. so there are a lot of issues and i think what teaching ping us also trying to demonstrate as to its own people that he can score our foreign policy. or when that he can show that china is not isolated under a world stage and has some friends and allies. and i think that will be the message here. why cause extend? and it was pakistan as a 1st destination for this trip. yeah, that's not a coincidence. kazakstan am i it there he will probably as she's in ping will sign some bilateral deals and also am pray sir. success and she achievements of the so called belt and wrote initiative, that's the m global development and infrastructure strategy of china for which em cassock someplace. really a major role and. and then later in speak a son. everything is about security. there will be a summit of the shanghai, a corporation organization, which is basically a reply to am yeah,

western let security organizations m a saw the status of india pakistan and iran will be expected. and they are showcasing basically a challenge to the western lead world order. they want to present an attorney to work in a to a world order, and that is the message there probably. and she is expected to meet with florida prudent, at some point during this trip. how important is the trade relation between russia and china right now? yes, this is a very controversial matter. i think our, of course, a china is now benefiting a lot from the voice that the western boycott against russia has left. i mean, china is getting a lot of cheap energy supply. they increase their imports of oil and gas from russia. but i think the economic aspect is not the main issue here. even more important is that china, once m, m a partner like a political partner to challenge the west and for that it needs russia. and you can

see that there were many high ranking and government official seal, and as of late, who basically am repeated the claim of russia that you know, the warrant, the ukraine. this only was provoked by the u. s. and the expansion of nato. and that russia's only defending its national interests. and that shows you how loyal china is towards russia and how close their corporation is. and i think it will be crucial. what am seating ping and vladimir putin will have to talk about or on thursday or friday. right? for the encroachment and beijing, thank you very much. there are some of the other global business stories making headlines. google has lost its appeal of an e u ruling that it had abused its android mobile operating system to gain a competitive advantage for its search engine. the european general court upholding the 2018 decision, but slightly lowering the record fine against the company to $4100000000.00.

inflation in britain has edge down to 9.9 percent in august to to slightly lower fuel prices. providing some relief to households and taking some pressure off the bank of england that follows inflation hitting a 40 year high. the month before the british pound gained on the news record temperatures in europe have led to dry weather, and farmers across the continent have been struggling. here's a look at how they're coping here in germany. this irrigation them operates around the clock to water. this field of beats, but even in northern germany, irrigation water is dwindling. farmer friedrich coll bowden has to take more ground water than he's actually entitled to. then get us. if we want to get the problem under control, in the long term, we need a network of reservoirs way wasted water is collected once by shot beckon rainwater storage tanks and needed. but these newly harvested beats said to help

keep the water in the area. how does that work exactly? the beats arrive at the local sugar factory, tons of them each containing 80 percent water. the sugar is separated, but the farmers want to harness the water from these vegetables for irrigation. to beat water from the factory is stored in this basin. it's enough to irrigate an area, the size of around $6500.00 football fields. the local head of the water and soil associations was one of the people who came up with the idea of this catchment bison. the veteran and in europe and germany and principal world wide will have to hold back water in many places in order to counteract climate change. because at the end of the day, water is a crucial factor in surviving climate change. 100. they'll have to hurry because the water table is sinking. these electrically operated boar pumps belong to pharma, huntsville, alan harbor land. his electricity and operating costs are exploding. couples with

whom i love already used a 130000 euros of electricity just for may and june. now i'm waiting for the bill to come for july. in order to reduce water consumption for irrigating potatoes, he uses drip houses which come from an israeli company specializing in desert irrigation. here at a sewage treatment plant in the region, the goal is to collect water and prevent it from flowing amused into the rivers. it's another example of attempts to stabilize the ground water level here. this time with purified sewage water spectrum is basin is now used as a some for the pump with which we divert the water into the forest area where it's then trickled among the trees that use it in the neighboring forest. the ground water reservoirs i know able to replenish. that's good for nature of course. but also for the farmers in the area who use the ground water.

brits are bidding farewell to their monarch this weekend. many are looking for a piece of memorabilia to mark the passing of an error, but it's not just the u. k. were vendors are doing well. take a look. the line to get into westminster hall is expected to be many kilometers long as hundreds of thousands try to get a glimpse of the queen's coffin. and as brits bid farewell to the popular monarch, they are also spending money on memorabilia and souvenirs to remember her by at the cool of britannia store coffee mugs and sweaters to be at the queen's portrait. and the slogan, gone but not forgotten, which lay their mugs with fish like 4 or, you know, hot and gone, but not forgotten. that seemed really popular. and here the blue by and a lot especially that these had, we have it and stores are already looking to the future, but it might take

a few days to get king charles memorabilia. you haven't planned any t shirts or clothing yet, but hopefully the mugs really come from thursday for king charles. yes, souvenirs are also in high demand in place as far from the u. k. like in hong kong, which was ruled by britain until being handed over to china in 1997 bryan on owns house of men and memorabilia. shop ho, why mean what hong kong people miss is not only the queen, but the time when hong kong was under her rule, how long it was during the british colonial time when hong kong developed to become a metropolitan city wide east meets west. so i think there's a sentimental feeling towards the queen, which was more than hers, a ruler. it's the feeling towards hong kong. colonial pastor can go home. gong us, continues all join them with beijing's clamp down in the city. and it's broad democracy. protests,

many hong kong as share the feeling and are more than happy to pay for anything to remember the queen, prince pens or even silver coins like this customer. so i feel very sad. the queen was an important figure for hong kong people. i will miss her, i go that's it for me and the dw business team, you can find out more about these and other stories online at d, w dot com slash business. we're also on youtube under the d, doug news channel. i'm seeing beardsley. thanks roger. i lou jim been wonderful in a relationship of equals a rarity in mexico where tradition still expects women to

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